Regular sheet pan waffles, without cherries. The little cubes of waffle in the picture at the top of the page contain cherries, cardamom, and are piled with fruit. So I thought you might want to see what unadorned sheet pan waffles look like.

This recipe started out as a recipe from a long-gone blog called “Living Healthy With Chocolate” for Chocolate Paleo Waffles — which are amazing! I converted that recipe into my recipe for Chocolate Chip waffles — which also are amazing! But my waffle iron is finicky, and making waffles one at a time is slow, so I made that into sheet pan waffles, which are delicious and much easier! At that point I am not sure that they are still waffles anymore, since they aren’t waffle shaped, and I think waffle shapedness is a basic essential of what makes a waffle a waffle. But these have all of the yummy goodness of chocolate chip waffles and they are much faster and easier — so I vote that this is a win all around!

In addition to being delicious, these are also healthy enough to eat for breakfast. Or cut them into bars and serve them as a dessert — especially the variation with cherries and cardamom.

Highly recommended!!

I brought some samples of the chocolate chip cherry cardamom variation to a get-together of the Gluten-Free Ann Arbor group, and people seemed enthusiastic!

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Sheet Pan Waffles

They are not waffle-shaped, but baking waffle batter on a sheet pan is much easier! These gluten-free vegan waffle squares are both healthy and delicious!!!

Prep Time10

Cook Time22

Total Time32

Course: Breakfast, Snack

Cuisine: American

Servings: 4

Ingredients

2 cups almond flour
1 cup tapioca starch - also called tapioca flour
2/3 cup gluten-free flour - you can choose a flour mix, or quinoa flour, or garbanzo flour
4 teaspoons baking powder - or 1 1/3 teaspoons of baking soda plus 1 1/3 teaspoons cream of tartar. If you don't have a 1/3 teaspoon measuring spoon (I don't), it's fine to estimate the amount. A 1-teaspoon overfilled until it is gently rounded is about 1 1/3 teaspoons.
almost 1/2 cup applesauce - Tip: This is the exact amount of applesauce in a pre-packaged 4-ounce cup of applesauce.
1 cup water
2/3 cup mild tasting oil such as canola oil
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 tablespoon either apple cider vinegar or lemon juice
3/4 cup chocolate chips - I like bittersweet Equal Exchange chocolate chips in this
1-2 cups fresh cherries, cut in half and with pits removed - optional!
1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom - optional - recommended together with the optional cherries

Instructions

Preheat your oven to 400 degrees F.
Get out an 11x15 inch cookie sheet with sides, or another baking pan that is about that size. If it's not nonstick, add parchment paper.
Put all of the ingredients in a large mixing bowl and mix well. A big whisk works well for this. Check for any pockets of unmixed ingredients and mix them in.
Pour the batter onto the cookie sheet, and spread it out evenly.
Bake for 22 minutes.
When it is done, the waffle squares should be starting to look golden brown on top. I like to test with a food thermometer; the temperature in the middle should be about 180 to 200 degrees Fahrenheit.
Cut into 16 rectangles and serve! I like to let them cool a little and then cut them into little bite-sized cubes. These are good with maple syrup, though instead of syrup I like to pile my waffles with colorful pieces of cut-up fresh fruit. And berries. Freckly bananas are good here, and cut-up mango, chunks of plum or other stonefruit, blueberries, other berries -- lots of types of fruit are great here! This is so very good!
In addition to breakfast or brunch, the waffle cubes make a nice snack. They also taste great cold from the refrigerator!

Notes

I am not a big fan of individual serving-sized cups of applesauce, because the packaging seems wasteful. But I used to always open a big new jar of applesauce, use one small serving, and then leave the jar in the refrigerator until it got moldy. When I use individual serving cups there is no leftover applesauce to go into the refrigerator and get moldy, so it reduces food waste. Is this better? Hard to say.